MIND OF TRUTH

About a year ago I came across a audio compilation called "The Revival Hymn" on which I heard some excerpts from Duncan Cambell who recounted the events of the revival on the island of Lewis in the early 1950's. You can download the Revival Hymn from sermonindex.net. There are other more in depth accounts of this revival if you look under the audio sermons for Duncan Cambell on that same web site. Duncan Cambell recounts point-by-point this three-year movement of the Holy Spirit over the Hebrides Islands. Thousands were converted, conviction overwhelmed villages, outward sin disappeared, and prayer meetings were packed! Your heart will be thrilled as you listen to this tape about this heaven-sent revival in Lewis. If you get a chance, take time to listen to this wonderful account. I may write more later concerning revival.

I was reminded this weekend that there is often a very big gap between those that have everything and those that have nothing. My wife and I got to go away for two nights to a very nice hotel on a work trip. We were definitely mingling with a higher social bracket. We left the lap of luxury to go home and I saw a homeless man walking down the street and I thought of how ironic it is that there is such a disparity among those that have and those that don't have as far as material things. I thought about what many people are missing out on by not giving when God leads them to give, and loving all who God brings in their path. Its not about material things though because those who have much can be just as lost as those with nothing. I think about when Peter and John did not have any silver and gold to give, but they gave a lame man the Spirit of God within them and he was healed. We may seek equality in our society and even with a good heart desire to give of what we have to th

If you are like me, there are always things in your life you seem to be waiting for. We all have dreams and visions of what we feel God wants to do in our life, yet we remain where we are day after day waiting for God to do what He has spoken to us. What do we need to do to bring these things about? We absolutely need to wait on the Lord and only move with His direction and leading, but if He has put a dream in our heart then He has already spoken to give us the first step. What is the step we need to take to begin making the dream a reality? I am convinced we need to do two things at the moment God speaks these things in our heart. First we must pray. Oswald Chambers says prayer is not preparing to do the work, but prayer is the work. I believe we can accomplish the dream in our times of prayer and then God will begin to open the doors before us to walk out in the natural what we have received in prayer. God cannot move on our behalf until we have prepared ourself for what He

"The Kingdoms of this world shall be The Kingdoms of my Lord, And of His Christ" eternally! So I cannot afford To think this life is my domain - When Jesus shall forever reign. To yield my kingdom here and now Is easier than when I stand where "every knee shall bow" And what I might have been In Jesus' Kingdom is revealed, Compared to what I would not yield. - Bob Revell

The words "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done" from the Lords prayer are some of the most powerful in scripture for a believer. We speak these words so easily, but do we realize what it takes to see that happen in our life? We want to see His will be done for the world, for the church, and our own life, but to do it God needs a yielded heart. He needs a life surrendered to Him. Are we willing to be that life? He will do His will and bring His kingdom in and through me if I let Him. I personally feel a desperation to see men and women of God really begin to stand up and walk in kingdom power and authority. I'm talking about real, true, self denying, cross carrying, yielded, wholehearted followers of Jesus Christ. The world has yet to see the revolutionary change that will come from God working through that kind of person. I think the world did see it through Paul and the apostles and others in the early church, but I believe God wants to manifest Himself now in gre

The Lord gave me an opportunity to get away for two days this week and do a work/training trip to Raleigh, NC. When I left this morning it was a beautiful, sunny, 67 degrees day. I was excited to get back to my family, but I was not looking forward to arriving in DC where it was 40 degrees colder with snow. I was also glad for the opportunity to spend some time alone with the Lord. My Pastor has been sharing an excellent message series with our congregation. He shared Sunday about the armor of God and how when James 4:7 tells us to resist the Devil and he will flee. That word resist does not just mean to hide behind our shield of faith and not be moved while we wait for the attack to subside and our enemy to flee. It actually means to press in and push forward with counter attacks to resist and drive back the advance of the enemy. That insight has change my perspective on the battles we face. So many times the enemy will come in like a flood and we feel so overcome that we just

Bill Johnson says "Every advancement in the kingdom is proceeded by a veil of difficulty". I would have to agree with that, or at least I can agree with the veil of difficulty part. I have not seen the advancement part yet. I know its coming, but when? When is the question. I think the level and intensity of difficulty is directly related to the advancement that follows. If we suffer some difficulty throughout our day and we are able by God's grace to rise above it and overcome, we will grow a little in the kingdom because of our experience. There seems to be times though when God allows us to go through extended times of difficulty that seem to have no end in site. These times will not only advance us, but bring us out to a whole new place. Most people have experienced something like these times, but we would all agree everyone is unique and even in our own lives, each one is different and more difficult that the previous time. I think of Jesus as the ultimate